Gwabegar railway line

Gwabegar railway line
Merrygoen Station
Overview
OwnerTransport Asset Holding Entity
Termini
  • Wallerawang
  • Gwabegar
Service
Operator(s)ARTC, UGL CRN
History
Opened10 September 1923 (1923-09-10)
Technical
Line length431.7 km (268.2 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Route map

km
171.9
Irondale
Pipers Flat
Portland
Portland Cement Works
Cullen Bullen
Invincible Colliery
193.7
Baal Bone Junction
200.3
Baal Bone Colliery
Ben Bullen
Capertee Tunnel
207.4
Capertee
Airly Loop Junction
Airly Loop
Torbane
Excelsior
Weenga
Carlos Gap
Carlos Gap Tunnel
Vulcan
Clandulla
Charbon
Charbon Colliery Jn
Charbon Colliery
Kandos Cement Works
249.3
Kandos Kandos Rylstone Heritage Rail
257.2
Rylstone Kandos Rylstone Heritage Rail
Mortonmain
Lue
Havilah
Mount Knowles
Mount Frome
308.1
Mudgee
Munna
Cudgegong River
Pipeclay Creek
Warrobil
340.6
Gulgong
Puggoon
Tallawang
Birriwa
Coolah Branch
Craboon
Dunedoo
Liamena
Towealgra
Wongoni
417.8
Merrygoen
Neilrex
Mooren
Piambra
Binnaway grain sidings
458.7
Binnaway
Murrawal
Deringulla
Ulamambri
508.3
Coonabarabran
Yearinan
Bugaldie
Wittenbra
563.8
Baradine
Kenebri
Merebene
Baradine Creek
603.6
Gwabegar

The Gwabegar railway line is a railway line in the Central West and North West Slopes of New South Wales, Australia, which passes through the towns of Mudgee, Gulgong, Dunedoo, Coonabarabran and terminates at Gwabegar.

The section from Wallerawang to Capertee was opened on 15 May 1882; the section from Capertee to Rylstone on 9 June 1884; the section from Rylstone to Mudgee on 10 September 1884; the section from Mudgee to Gulgong on 14 April 1909; the section from Gulgong to Dunedoo on 28 November 1910; the section from Dunedoo to Binnaway on 2 April 1917; the section from Binnaway to Coonabarabran on 11 June 1917; and the section from Coonabarabran to Gwabegar on 10 September 1923.[1][2]

Currently, the Gwabegar Line is operational between Wallerawang to Rylstone and between Gulgong and Binnaway. The line beyond Rylstone to Gulgong and from Binnaway towards the terminus at Gwabegar still remains booked out of use and rail traffic remains suspended.[3][4][5]

The section of the Line between Kandos and Rylstone was restored in 2018 to operate heritage trains between the two railway stations.[5]

  1. ^ 'The Wallerawang - Gwabegar Branch Line', Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, January 1968 & August 1968.
  2. ^ "RAILWAY EXTENSION". Mudgee Guardian and North Western Representative. New South Wales, Australia. 13 September 1923. p. 29 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Signaling & infrastructure" Railway Digest November 2014 page 42
  4. ^ "Signaling & infrastructure" Railway Digest February 2015 page 43
  5. ^ a b "Kandos-Rylstone Heritage Railway Official Opening". Mudgee Region. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.